Ship on Fire
Despite his short career Charles Brooking enjoys a reputation as one of Britain’s most important marine painters. This work has no signature but the composition is very similar to another in the Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 29/1869
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- Ship on Fire
- Simple Name
- painting
- Inscription Transcription
- AMCSW 1969; Plymouth
- Period Classification
- George II (1727-1760)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1750
- Production Person Initials
- Charles
- Production Person Surname
- Brooking, attributed to
- Production Year Low
- 1743
- Production Year High
- 1759
